| | Memories of Nazi Past Persist Among East Europeans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Most of them fled before the Red Army, which was avid for revenge, while others like the Germans of the Sudentenland, which was then in Czechoslovakia, were expelled from their native land and had their property brutally expropriated. |
 | | Associations of refugees in Germany, generously subsidized from the public purse and supported by the conservative political parties, continue to demand the restitution of their lost patrimony. |
 | | In the midst of this whirlwind, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer have sought to defuse the tension by recalling once again the “historic fault” of the Third Reich and the many millions of deaths it caused. |
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